My father, Donald Gordon, who has died aged 90, enjoyed two successful and influential careers, first in education and then in Roman history, as he put Trimontium, Scotland’s largest Roman fort, back on the map.
Donald was one of the key founders of the Trimontium Trust in the late 1980s, following an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to move the route of the Melrose bypass away from the Roman site, which neighboured Donald’s village of Newstead, in the Borders.
